Regulations
As a funeral director every so often I was asked by a person or family to help with an anatomical bequest of a person who wanted to donate their body for medical research. I’m located between Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Grand Forks, North Dakota, where the medical schools for those respective states are located. There was…
I’ve told you before that I get a lot of ideas for articles simply by seeing what is going on in “current events” and then trying to hypothesize how those current events will affect the death care industry. I’m writing this column on Thursday, October 14, and during my workout this morning with the television…
The funeral profession has long had its critics. Those of us in the profession have to understand that and know that from time to time we are going to be broadsided by those critics’ calls for change. Recently this article entitled “How ‘Big Funeral’ made the afterlife so expensive” was published in Wired. It’s a…
This is the week that Congress should act on the Biden Administration’s key piece of legislation, the $3.5 trillion “Human Infrastructure” bill. Regardless of what happens or how you feel about that bill, I thought it would be interesting to look back on how death care has fared from the other two large social bills…
According to this article from U.S. News & World Report, the process of natural organic reduction or what is commonly referred by many consumers as “human composting” is now available in the state of Colorado. Legalized by the state over a year ago with a September 7, 2021, legal start date, at least one death…
I think we have all seen it, but have we ever looked at the statistics and questioned what has happened. The “it” I’m talking about is women in the workplace over the years and the correlation of “Where have all the Men gone”? In the death care business we have seen the rise of the…
“We have been patient. But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost us all.” According to this article from Yahoo Finance, those were the words of President Joe Biden when he announced last Thursday the upcoming Covid-19 vaccine mandates for American businesses. According to this article from Yahoo Finance, “a new Labor…
Arlington National Cemetery, our nation’s national cemetery, is somewhat between a rock and a hard place as they plan the future of the cemetery. I don’t think anybody disagrees with Karen Durham-Aguilera, the cemetery’s executive director when she states, “We want to be open. We want to have that opportunity for that 5-year-old who’s going…
